With a population over 1.3 billion, a land mass almost 9.6 million square kilometers, and a culture over 5,000 years old, China is a vast country in every sense.

One of the world’s largest politically unified areas (fourth after Russia, Canada and the U.S.), China is bordered by a dozen others, both small and large. Several small Asian countries - such as Burma, Vietnam, and Laos - are to the south, with a portion of the borders of India and Pakistan to the east.

Large percentages of the borders of Mongolia, Russia, and Kazakhstan lie to the north. Much of the eastern border is water, with large mountains and plateaus to the west. The country is host to every kind of terrain from Mount Everest to the shore of the East China Sea. Continue Reading

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